Happy New Year guys! I though it would be appropriate to kick off the new year with the traditional listing of my favorite manicures of the previous year. It's always fun to take a little look back and see what was done each year. Unfortunately, the past year has been quite slow and quiet here in my blog and I managed to post significantly less than previous years. It was quite busy year and a bit stressful and honestly I had way less time to put into the blog that I would have wanted. I'm hoping that this is the one thing that will change this year. Nevertheless, I still managed to do some nail art and I wanted to share my favorites of those nail art looks with you guys today.

Again, like previous years, it was impossible to put these in some sort of rank order, so these are from oldest to newest. I also included a link to each post of the manicure, so you can take a closer look if you want to.

It's only a few days until Christmas, can you believe it?! Today I wanted to give a great last minute gift idea if you still have some Christmas gift shopping left to do.

*Press sample

I got to choose couple Lush Christmas products for review and after going through all those gorgeous new and returning limited edition products and I chose this Snow Fairy Body Conditioner as one of the products. I know there are many people out there who absolutely love this very sweet scent of Snow Fairy and can't wait for these holiday products to come to Lush just to get them some Snow Fairy. For me though the scent is slightly too sweet, so I was a bit hesitant about this product, but I thought I should take the risk as it sounded like such a great one otherwise.

It's time to check out the week three of L'Occitane Advent Calendar! Remember to also check out week 1 and week 2 if you haven't done it already.

I can't really believe that we are already at the end of week three and there's only six days left of the calendar. Time certainly have seemed to be flying lately. Week 3 continued to offer a few different shower gels but thankfully there was some variety of more different products in the mix too. Let's take a closer look after the jump!